DOI: 10.3390/s26165158 ISSN: 1424-8220

Multi-Modal GAN-Based Anomaly Detection for Signal Reliability Assessment in Fabric-Integrated Smart Textiles

Jianbin Wu, Ru Fan, Xiangfang Ren

Smart textiles require reliable physiological sensing despite signal degradation caused by fabric deformation, material fatigue, and unstable textile–skin interfaces. This study presents a multi-modal GAN-based anomaly detection framework for signal reliability assessment using acceleration (ACC), electrodermal activity (EDA), and heart rate (HR). Controlled injection of baseline drift, amplitude scaling, and signal dropout generates normal/anomalous labels for supervised training. Temporal encoding and cross-modal attention distinguish textile-mimicking anomalies from physiologically plausible variations. On the 36-subject PhysioNet dataset, the framework achieves an F1-score of 0.9197 and exceeds the evaluated single-modal models by more than 35%. Using PhysioNet-trained weights without fine-tuning, zero-shot evaluation on the textile-integrated WWBS Metrics dataset achieves an F1-score of 0.8723 with ACC and derived HR. These results demonstrate cross-dataset transfer under the controlled synthetic-fault protocol; validation using physically induced textile faults remains necessary.

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